Clues for the word "SILENCE"
We've had 80 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 131 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on February 17, 2024.
Definition of silence
- n. - The state of being silent; entire absence of sound or noise; absolute stillness.
- n. - Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness.
- n. - Secrecy; as, these things were transacted in silence.
- n. - The cessation of rage, agitation, or tumilt; calmness; quiest; as, the elements were reduced to silence.
- n. - Absence of mention; oblivion.
- interj. - Be silent; -- used elliptically for let there be silence, or keep silence.
- v. t. - To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.
- v. t. - To put to rest; to quiet.
- v. t. - To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel.
- v. t. - To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy.
Referring Clues
- Schoolmaster's order
- Golden attribute?
- "Shut up!"
- Court cry
- It is golden, it's said
- Shout by the Wizard of Oz
- Sound of one hand clapping?
- "Shh!"
- "The most perfect expression of scorn," according to George Bernard Shaw
- "Be quiet!"
- Hush
- Something golden
- Soundlessness
- Still
- Shut up
- Muzzle
- Library's need
- Librarian's demand
- Shout from the Wizard of Oz
- Tongue-tie
- "Quiet!"
- To some, it's golden
- "Listen up!"
- It's golden, in a 1964 Four Seasons song
- Lack of sound
- Characteristic of this puzzle's circled letters, which suggest a 1991 Oscar-winning film
- Librarian's request
- Librarian's request
- Librarian's request
- Library request
- It's said to be golden
- Total quiet
- Absolute quiet
- Library directive
- "Hush"
- 'Be quiet!'
- Teacher's warning
- Disc jockey's "dead air"
- Golden thing
- "The ___ of the Lambs"
- Quiet
- Failure to speak out
- Librarian's exhortation
- Absence of sound
- Golden quality
- Golden intangible
- Complete quiet
- As leaders of law enforcement go in for peace
- Hush as the French entered
- The next eleven seconds
- Stillness
- License (anag)
- Gag
- You didn't break it, mum
- It is said to be golden
- Stunned response
- Unsound property?
- Pagan god (not American) going to church still
- The peace subsequently includes the French
- A voice can shatter it
- Golden quality?
- Noiselessness
- Since the Parisian dropped in, it's quiet
- Quiet because carrying semi-toxic metal
- Secrecy because the French invaded
- Peace is upheld by man going to church
- Quiet because occupied by French article
- Inaction because the French invades
- "Zip it!"
- It may be broken in a library
- Absence of noise
- Lack of noise
- It's golden, they say
- "___ is golden"
- Library ambience
- "The ___ of the Lambs" (1991 Horror)
- Quieten
- Something that may be golden or broken
- But surely you've heard that it's golden?
- State of being shut up?
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - February 17, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 23, 2023
- USA Today - November 30, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 15, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 08, 2023
- Daily American - October 19, 2023
- Daily American - October 13, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 08, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - August 28, 2023
- Mirror Mini - August 21, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - August 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 02, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - July 10, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - June 05, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 20, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - May 12, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - April 19, 2023
- Daily American - March 14, 2023
- Daily American - March 03, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - February 14, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - February 09, 2023
- Daily Quick - February 04, 2023
- Your Life Choices - January 20, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 19, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 16, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - October 25, 2022
- Your Life Choices - October 13, 2022
- USA Today - October 03, 2022
- Mirror Mini - August 21, 2022
- Your Life Choices - July 14, 2022
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